NOVELS
Bitch by Karl Rauh
Few events during that whirlwind of movements, conflicts and upheaval known as "the sixties" took Americans more by surprise, or were more likely to inspire their rage, than the rebellion of those who were young, white, and college educated. Perhaps none have been more maligned or misunderstood since. Dominick Cavallo pushes past the contemporary fog of myth, cold disdain and warm nostalgia that shrouds the radical youth culture of the '60s. He explores how the furiously chaotic sixties sprang from the comparatively placid forties and fifties. The book digs beyond the post-World War II decades and seeks the historical sources of the youth culture in the distant American past.
Divine Right's Trip : A Novel of the Counterculture
by Gurney Norman
0riginally printed in installments as an adjunct in The Last Whole Earth Catalog.
This classic piece of American history is a must read!!
The
Cold Six Thousand
Ellroy's noir tale is full of his trademark violence, sex and rough
language.
Clipped, stylized, hard-nosed and repetitive, this novel cuts like a dark,
24-hour Beat poem and sounds like Jack Webb on crack. The book's main character,
a Cop named Tedrow is inadvertently mixed up with practically every cultural
and political event and figure of the 1960s: Cuba, the Kennedy assassinations,
Martin Luther King Jr. , Oswald, Ruby, Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, Sonny
Liston, mobster Carlos Marcellos, Hughes take over of Las Vegas, J. Edgar
Hoover, and theVietnam war. Great smount of research and in depth knowlege
of the period make this one of the best books.
Ginny Good
This novel on the life and times of the San Francisco Bay area back in the daze is a real page turner.
At times very funny and
often very sad. I enjoyed this book because it is very well written and rings true for me.
Indian
Summer of Love by
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"The Indian Summer of Love" is a fast paced, exceptionally well written
novel.
We are taken along for the ride with Sam, a young man on a
quest to find himself, as he hitchhikes across the country during the hippie
era's last daze. The book shares his experiences in San Francisco and
Monterey, the finding of like minded individuals traveling the same roads to
and from California groovin' on the good times, the psychedelic music, free love,
and their dream to end war and change the world.
L.
M. Levy's novel reveals the best of times as well as the worse, such as
the horrible violence experienced at the massive peace demonstration at the Pentagon
in 1967 that for many signaled the end of any faith in truth or justice. They
were lost through disillusionment and the final tragedy of mean streets and bad
drugs.
A thought provoking account of what it was like to be young, loving, and hopeful
in the late sixties, the death of the dream, and the struggle required to
survive the fall.
Little
Miss Strange: A Novel
by Joanna Rose
Sarajean, a child of the '70s, begins her story in a free-love, first-names-only,
hippie commune in Denver. Little Miss Strange achieves its beauty--and its
power--by way of details that offer an unfiltered view of an exotic counterculture
as experienced by the child as she becomes a woman.
Loose
Change: Three Women of the Sixties
by Sara Davidson
This book sets the private lives of the three women against the public background
of the time: the free speech movement, antiwar protests, Woodstock, drugs,
the sexual revolution, Eastern spirituality, the avant garde art worlds of
New York and Paris, communes, and the first moments of the women's movement.
Timothy Leary, Mario Savio, Tom Hayden, and Joan Baez appear
throughout.
Messenger
from the Summer of Love
by David Rey Echt
An original story that takes you on a mystical journey during that summer
in 1967. Travel with an adventurous, twenty-year old man (Trevor) from the
San Fernando Valley to the Legendary Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco,
the birthplace of the Hippies.
The
Other Side of Haight : A Novel
by James Fadiman
The story of a group of young people sharing a house in Haight-Ashbury in
the 60's, both embodying and creating the spirit of their place and time.
This book rekindles memories for those who remember, and were "there" in
body and/or Spirit, while it sparks curiosity and new interest for those
who were not.
A portrait of the Haight in its early Camelot days. A time when there was
such an intense optimism that by caring and loving each other we began to
change the planet...James Fadiman,author.
The
Pipe Dreamers
by Sandra Gurvis
A snapshot of an era complete with the non-violent hippies, the radicals,
the conservatives, the understanding faculty, misunderstanding parents, and
reactionary administration. Julia Brandon, an innocent sorority girl and
her journey of self-discovery is fascinating, especially for any reader too
young to remember the 1960s. Gurvis has done an excellent job in recreating
the setting for the reader, including all the drugs, fashion and slang that
characterized the era, from "mari-huana" to "outtasight."
Out of Print but available used and new through the link.
Prior
Convictions: Stories from the Sixties
by: Hickey, Dave
A collection of short stories of life as it was and still is for many.
